gubernator

gŭbernātor, ōris, m. [id.], a steersman, pilot (cf.: magister, navarchus, nauclerus, navicularius).

I.

Lit.:

si tu proreta isti navi's, ego gubernator ero,

Plaut. Rud. 4, 3, 75; id. Am. 3, 2, 69:

gubernator clavum tenens sedet in puppi quietus,

Cic. de Sen. 6, 17; id. Phil. 7, 9, 27; id. Ac. 2, 31, 100; id. de Inv. 1, 34, 58; id. Rep. 1, 40; 5, 3; Quint. 2, 17, 24; 34; 4, 1, 61; Verg. A. 3, 269; 5, 12; 6, 337 et saep.—Prov.:

tranquillo quilibet gubernator est,

Sen. Ep. 85 med. —

II.

Transf., a director, ruler, governor: cum in rebus animalibus aliud pro alio ponitur;

ut de agitatore (Ennius): Gubernator magna contorsit equum vi,

Quint. 8, 6, 9; the same, Enn. ap. Charis. p. 244 P. and ap. Diom. p. 451 ib. (Ann. v. 160 Vahl.):

poli,

i. e. God, Sen. Hippol. 903:

custodes gubernatoresque rei publicae,

Cic. Rab. Perd. 9, 26; cf.:

quasi tutor et procurator rei publicae: sic enim appelletur, quicumque erit rector et gubernator civitatis,

id. Rep. 2, 29.